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Area lags in access to Web
ROANOKE -- Households in Southwest Virginia are among the least wired in the country, according to research that ranked it last among 79 U.S. markets for broadband use. The Roanoke-Lynchburg market includes adult households in 25 Virginia counties. Only 29 percent of the adults in that market have high-speed Internet connections in their homes, according to Scarborough Research.
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Mandriva Flash 2008 has been released . "Mandriva Flash 4GB provides a full-featured system - Mandriva Linux 2008 KDE- that requires no installation, on a bootable USB key.
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After roughly 12 years of work, the Wine Project is about to take its widely used Windows translation layer to a place it has not been in all that time: beta.
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On Symantec's blog website, the company writes: "Researchers and engineers who are working in the security field must have strong constitutions - especially when it comes to weathering negative backlash and tired conspiracy theories whenever security and Mac OS X are mentioned in the same breath.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 13th Aug 2005 17:58 UTC
After a few months of quiet activity, the Appeal desktop project has rolled out a new project website that documents what everyone has been up to and discussing . Since the the last public announcement many things have occurred, including another Appeal meeting being held in Germany.
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Software firm merges with global player
VietNamNet Bridge - FCG Vietnam, a major software company from Ho Chi Minh City, officially joined the US’s Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) network of global software development centres last week.
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Elegant variations
Mark Sarvas, who was raised in a Hungarian Jewish family in Queens, has become notorious as the acid-fingered blogger at The Elegant Variation, a literary site he launched in 2003.
Lawrence Journal-World |
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Virgin Mobile and Helio, wireless resellers, may link: Journal
Virgin Mobile USA and a venture between SK Telecom and Earthlink are in talks to merge, which would join two cellular-service resellers, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.
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Be a (virtual) builder with computer game
With the 'Build-a-lot' download, you start out with cash, supplies and a work crew and move on to flipping homes. It's relatively simple; no civil engineering degree is required.
Contra Costa Times |
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AT ISSUE COMPUTER EFFICIENCY: Server farms dot back roads
A new kind of farm is popping up. Tucked away on America's back roads, it uses no soil or seeds. Rather, it nurtures curiosities about everything from porn to pinochle expressed in a nearly endless sequence of 1's and 0's queried from desktops, laptops and iPhones around the globe.
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SOLUTIONS: Making sure kiosks are running properly
TODAY'S AUTHOR: Linda Lynch, president, KI Technology Group. THE CHALLENGE: Ensure that Internet kiosks are running 24/7.
Detroit Free Press |
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Web site flap prompts Alaska Democrat to give up House race
Sun, May 11, 2008 (12:22 a.m.) A Democratic congressional candidate abruptly dropped out of the race Wednesday and said a former campaign worker was linked to an Internet smear aimed at a rival.
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Can you explain me why I have to reinstall so many XP instead of Vista if it "just works"? Hopefully I'm not opening a can of worms here, but in my experience it has been a combination of what the user needs along with what their computer is capable of.
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Wireless access for travelers has strings attached
The battle between free and paid wireless Internet access for travelers is starting to look like a draw. Or more accurately, a third variation...
Seattle Times |
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Microsoft has posted the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site . The move marks the first opportunity for all users of the six-year-old operating system to try out its final upgrade.
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"Now that Microsoft has declared itself untouched by any GPLv3 terms, everyone is trying to figure out if they have a leg to stand on.
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"Yesterday was our big day at Google, and we can say with a good degree of confidence that the Haiku Tech Talk was quite successful . We had a very special guest for this event: former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gassée, not only joined us at Google for our presentation, but also gave a few words of support and encouragement for our project.
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review the full specifications
If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. In one fell swoop, the nonprofit organization will create the largest computing monoculture in history.
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DragonflyBSD 1.10.1 has been released. It includes several bugfixes. "DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly branched from FreeBSD in 2003 in order to develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems."
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Printing in a Box: Unique Print Reseller Program Builds Online Print Reseller Store and Fulfills Orders
Printing in a Box™ provides all of the tools a person needs to run their own print business without any of the associated overhead. They can work from home as long as they have an Internet connection and a telephone. Printing in a Box™ processes, fulfills and blind ships the orders for the site owners. Site owners are only responsible for marketing their sites and supporting their customers. ...
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EBay’s PayPal rule in Australia draws fire
Sun, May 11, 2008 (12:12 a.m.) EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.
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Free Legal Research Available at AllLawBlog.com
AllLawBlog.com is a new site that is a legal blog and also provides extensive legal resources and access to databases so that users can do free legal research. (PRWeb May 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb932114.htm
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RuleSpace Appoints Gary Thomassen as Vice President of Enterprise Products to Spearhead Continued Expansion into Web ...
Security market veteran joins RuleSpace, a leading OEM provider of web categorization solutions, bringing additional security market expertise and focus as it expands its market reach further into the Web security and URL filtering market. (PRWeb May 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb930974.htm
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Man up, pal: There's no whining in online dating
Don't understand why women aren't e-mailing you? Male Call explains it all
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Allow dates to save face
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am just entering the dating world after the end of a 25-year marriage. With careful consideration, I find that Internet dating sites are a viable way to meet potential suitors.
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